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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death…
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Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.…
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My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand…
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Most fiction comes from your experience.
— Susan Minot
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